St. Catherine's British School Athens
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3.3 from 28 reviews
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Most commonly the term ‘achievement’ in a school is associated with attainment in the form of assessment and examination results and most certainly you will see that the learning of St. Catherine's British School, Athens' students, that is nurtured by stimulating and contemporary teaching of a curriculum that sets high expectations, has led to academic achievements and subsequent university and college placements that places us amongst the most successful British international schools.

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Curriculum

English,IB

Primary Language

English

Ages

3 to 18

Max Class Size

Unknown

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28 Reviews of St. Catherine's British School

Average Ratings

Overall 3.28
Facilities 3.00
Academics 2.64
Teachers 2.72
Sports 2.84
Music & Arts 2.96
Science & Tech 3.00

Reviewer Nationalities

Greek (13) Australian (1) American (2) British (7) Japanese (1)

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Alex, 04/01/2023 @ 13:01:16
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I joined at the start of the upper school, just as the new building was opened. After two years attending the school my family and I have decided to leave. My main issue has been the awful academic quality. Most of the teachers are from Greece and I had a big problem communicating with them in English, and there were rumours that the school had a big hiring problem since most of them were extremely young and evidently (with some exceptions such as the head of years and the head of key stage 3) had very little to no teaching experience. We would get through an 80 minute lesson and the most my classmates would achieve is throwing a paper airplane from one end of the classroom to another. They could not handle the class and were also often late to lessons; Me and my class once waited 15 minutes outside the music room as the teacher was rehearsing a play with the drama club. They rarely properly prepared us for tests and were either extremely strict, or extremely relaxed and careless about their students. When a friend of mine corrected my science teacher's awful spelling he got a detention and she tried to humiliate him in front of the whole class by asking him to spell complicated scientific words. Their handling of situations of bullying is horrendous and most of them had favoured students. Another problem were the other students; most of them were friendly, but a good lot of them were entitled stupid snobs. I took a long time to settle in with my new classmates (despite me being quite friendly and extrovert) as a lot of the friend groups are gangs. The language level was horrendous, as they used slurs as standard greetings and the things I heard coming out of the mouths of 12 year-olds (in front of teachers as well) was something I had never experienced before. A good lot of my classmates rarely did their homework and they got congratulated for not coming late class. The test score averages were astonishing, and their attention span in class lasted for about two seconds. Things were stolen out of other peoples bags, other's phones were broken. Somebody even threw someone's pencil case from the school balcony. The facilities were originally amazing, but were awfully sustained. The bathrooms were so filthy that they had to be cleaned 3-4 times a day and curse words were drawn on the walls. The chairs in the classrooms were also often broken or dirty. The school had collected some money to build new football pitches and sports facilities. Quite frankly the board of directors had lied (once again) since we have been changing for P.E in a dirty old abandoned warehouse for 3 years. But one thing I cannot complain about were the extra curricular activities. There are lot of interesting trips that we have gone to, and the school has hosted a lot of events. Plus, there is a very wide variety of after school clubs. Being a member of the football team we have gone to overseas tournaments and compete in league matches every weekend.

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Julie Cronin, 9 months ago


All three of my children loved it!

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julie vl., a year ago


Εξαιρετικό αγγλόφωνο σχολείο αλλά πάρα πάρα πολύ ακριβό

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Sakis Anastasopoulos, 9 months ago


Καλό αλλά ακριβό.. δυο αστέρια επιεικως..

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